Bring the kids and join us as we celebrate the December holidays and winter season by decorating the park. Decorations will be provided and some can be made on site (weather permitting). There will be decorations that celebrate the winter season as well as Hanukkah and Christmas.

Are you still stuffed from all that turkey and stressed from black Friday shopping? If so, then join us and work off some of that large meal and stress at our annual post-Thanksgiving leaf raking event. Come help us clean the park by raking and bagging leaves that will then be sent to the Lower East Side Ecology Center for composting. We will supply all the tools, gloves and equipment. We just need your helping hands and smiling face for any amount of time that you can give. Student groups and those needing community service hours are welcome to attend. There will be something for all ages to help with.

Join Friends of Corlears Hook Park, NYC Parks and the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film!

Hugh Jackman leads an all-star cast in this bold and original musical filled with infectious showstopping performances that will bring you to your feet time and time again. Inspired by the story of P.T. Barnum (Jackman), the film follows the visionary who rose from nothing to create a mesmerizing spectacle. This inspirational film also stars Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson and Zendaya.

Movie starts after sundown on the ball field so arrive early to get your spot. Feel free to bring a blanket to sit on. Bottled water and food is OK, but no glass. Reservations are not taken; space is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Open to all!

Join Friends of Corlears Hook Park in collaboration with East River Park Coalition as the City Parks Foundation’s SummerStage presents the PuppetMobile performance of The Big Good Wolf. This modern-day fairy tale, starring classic characters from The Three Bears, finds Baby Bear and her friend Goldilocks making it their mission to help change the Big Bad Wolf into good.

Get fit in the park with our free weekly yoga classes. Classes will be held every Wednesday evening in from June 6th through August 29th* at 6:30pm (weather permitting). *No class on July 4th.

In partnership with Shape Up NYC - a free fitness program of NYC Parks & Recreation, these instructor led classes are free to the public and open to all levels of experience from beginner to advanced practitioners. A limited number of yoga mats will be available for use but if you have your own, please bring it. We will also provide snacks and water for class participants. Come dressed in comfy, stretchable clothes as there is no changing facility on site.

WHAT IS YOGA?

While there are more than 100 different types, or schools, of yoga, most sessions typically include breathing exercises, meditation, and assuming postures (sometimes called asana or poses) that stretch and flex various muscle groups. The purpose of yoga is to create strength, awareness and harmony in both the mind and body. Yoga can have both physical and mental benefits to those who practice it. The relaxation techniques incorporated in yoga can lessen chronic pain, such as lower back pain, arthritis, headaches and carpal tunnel syndrome. Yoga’s incorporation of meditation and breathing can help create mental clarity and calmness, increase body awareness, relieve chronic stress patterns, relax the mind, and sharpen concentration.

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"Family Fun Day" is an event that Friends of Corlears Hook Park has put on annually since our founding and has quickly become a neighborhood tradition. This event doesn't require any "work" to be done, but rather invites the community into the park to enjoy various activities and learn about local community programming. People are invited to bring a picnic to the park and enjoy an array of fun entertainment, activities, giveaways, and information provided by various partner organizations.

A Librarian from the Seward Park Library will do story time readings with the kids and help them select free books provided by a generous donor.

The Tenement Museum invites you explore objects and homes from the past, and participate in their new online exhibit, Your Story, Our Story. Help us tell the story of America’s immigration and migration by contributing your family’s story. Bring a family object (nothing valuable, please) to photograph for the exhibit, and come ready to share a story!

The NYC Parks Play Mobile will be on-site and stocked with games and toys suitable for children. We will also have a face painter on-site.

The NYPD 7th Precinct Community Affairs office will have a patrol car in the park for the kids to explore.

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) present “What’s a tangram? It’s a Chinese puzzle that is popular all over the world! Design your own tangram, then arrange and rearrange its shapes to create different patterns.”

Basketball City will be on hand promoting their summer camp and scholarship program.

The NYC Compost Project hosted by the Lower East Side Ecology Center invites you to come learn how food scraps are transformed into nutrient rich compost at a compost education activity table with family-friendly compost activities!

Paul Taylor American Modern Dance is pleased to welcome the Friends of Corlears Hook Park, along with the NYC dance community, Taylor School families, and members of the public to an afternoon of Free Performances with Taylor 2 and the Taylor Teen Ensemble at the Taylor Dance Studios on the Lower East Side.

Free tickets will be made available to Friends of Corlears Hook Park constituents a full week prior to being made available to the general public. Starting April 12 you can reserve your tickets here. Tickets will then open to the public on April 19th and typically sell out quickly so we encourage you to take advantage of this special advanced offer by Paul Taylor. In an effort to ensure access to as many people as possible, we ask that you only choose one performance to attend. There is a maximum of two (2) tickets per person registered.

The Paul Taylor Teen Ensemble offers teenagers an opportunity to learn more about Mr. Taylor’s work through the performance of excerpts of his diverse repertory. By audition only, the Ensemble seeks to expand the student’s experience of Mr. Taylor's movement style, while developing his/her technical proficiency and overall artistry. The Ensemble commitment is for one year and includes technique classes as well as rehearsals. The Ensemble performs within the tri-state area at K-12 public and private schools, as well as at larger performance venues throughout New York City.

Join the New York Junior League’s Playground Improvement Project (PIP) to help beautify and improve Corlears Hook Park. Our volunteers create safe, beautiful, well-organized, and educational play spaces for children and other members of the New York City community, and we need you to help garden, landscape, renovate, as well as make general improvements. PIP partners with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, as well as corporate and community volunteers, NYJL volunteers, neighborhood citizens, children, and families.

Volunteers from the Junior League will be working in the park from 8:30am - 2:00pm on the following days:

Saturday Apr 14, 2018

Sunday Apr 15, 2018

Saturday Apr 21, 2018

Sunday Apr 22, 2018

Saturday Apr 28, 2018

Sunday Apr 29, 2018

Saturday May 05, 2018

Sunday May 06, 2018

Saturday May 12, 2018

If you are interested in helping out on any of the volunteer days please register here so they can plan accordingly.

The Parks Department will be presenting the proposed design for the renovation of our dog runs at the next Parks, Recreation, Cultural Affairs, & Waterfront Committee meeting of the Community Board. This is your final opportunity to see the design and offer feedback to the Parks Department before the project moves into the next phase. Please attend this important meeting if you can.

Bring the kids and join us in making decorations to celebrate all holidays in the park. We will provide all the craft materials needed and an array of arts & craft activities for the kids to express their holiday cheer. We will have crafts that celebrate the winter season as well as Hanukkah and Christmas. Due to the cold weather we will meet at the Vladeck Houses Residents Association Community Room (328 Madison Street) to make the decorations indoors and then at the end of the event we will walk as a group together to the park to decorate. If you are a crafts person and want to volunteer to lead the kids in making decorations please reach out to us.

All the leaves are brown and by this time of year are also on the ground. Join us and work off some of that large turkey meal at our annual post-Thanksgiving leaf raking event. Come help us clean the park by raking and bagging leaves that will then be sent to the Lower East Side Ecology Center for composting. We will supply all the tools, gloves and equipment. We just need your helping hands and smiling face for any amount of time that you can give. Student groups and those needing community service hours are welcome to attend. There will be something for all ages to help with.

It's our Annual Fall It's My Park Day event!!

Come get your hands dirty by helping us plant daffodil bulbs throughout the park, rake up leaves, and do some general cleaning and weeding throughout the park. All are welcome. We will supply all the tools, gloves and equipment. We just need your helping hands and smiling face for any amount of time that you can give. Student groups and those needing community service hours are welcome to attend. There will be something for all ages to help with.

Join Friends of Corlears Hook Park, NYC Parks and the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film!

Wednesday, August 23, 20178:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.On the Softball Field

Arrive by 8:00 p.m. to get your spot. Feel free to bring a blanket to sit on. Bottled water and food is OK, but no glass. Reservations are not taken; space is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Open to all!

Movie Synopsis: Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to Cabaret. The winner of eight Academy Awards, it boasts a score by the legendary songwriting partnership behind another film that would energize the movie musical genre with equal razzle-dazzle 30 years later: Chicago's John Kander and Fred Ebb. Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) and an impish emcee (Joel Grey) sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force. Cabaret caught lightning (and won Oscars) for Minnelli, Grey and director Bob Fosse, who shaped a triumph of style and substance. Come to this Cabaret, old chum. You'll never want to leave.

Join Friends of Corlears Hook Park, NYC Parks and the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film!

Thursday, July 27, 20178:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.On the Softball Field

Arrive by 8:00 p.m. to get your spot. Feel free to bring a blanket to sit on. Bottled water and food is OK, but no glass. Reservations are not taken; space is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Open to all!

Movie Synopsis: Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical-romantic comedy directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds. It offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to "talkies." Donald O'Connor won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green won the Writers Guild of America Award for their screenplay, while Jean Hagen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film topped the AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals list and is ranked as the fifth-greatest American motion picture of all time in its updated list of the greatest American films in 2007. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Get fit in the park with our free weekly yoga classes. Classes will be held every Wednesday evening in June and July at 6:30pm (weather permitting). Extended 2 weeks to August 9th.

In partnership with Shape Up NYC - a free fitness program of NYC Parks & Recreation, these instructor led classes are free to the public and open to all levels of experience from beginner to advanced practitioners. A limited number of yoga mats will be available for use but if you have your own, please bring it. We will also provide snacks and water for class participants. Come dressed in comfy, stretchable clothes as there is no changing facility on site.

What is Yoga?

While there are more than 100 different types, or schools, of yoga, most sessions typically include breathing exercises, meditation, and assuming postures (sometimes called asana or poses) that stretch and flex various muscle groups. The purpose of yoga is to create strength, awareness and harmony in both the mind and body. Yoga can have both physical and mental benefits to those who practice it. The relaxation techniques incorporated in yoga can lessen chronic pain, such as lower back pain, arthritis, headaches and carpal tunnel syndrome. Yoga’s incorporation of meditation and breathing can help create mental clarity and calmness, increase body awareness, relieve chronic stress patterns, relax the mind, and sharpen concentration.

"Family Fun Day" is an event that Friends of Corlears Hook Park has put on annually since our founding two years ago and is quickly becoming a neighborhood tradition. This event doesn't require any "work" to be done, but rather invites the community into the park to enjoy various activities and learn about local community programming. People are invited to bring a picnic to the park and enjoy an array of fun entertainment, activities, giveaways, and information provided by various partner organizations.

The highlight of this year's event will be a 30-minute performance* by the Taylor Teen Ensemble from the Paul Taylor School.

Other participating groups and activities include:

The Tenement Museum invites you explore objects and homes from the past, and participate in their new online exhibit, Your Story, Our Story. Help us tell the story of America’s immigration and migration by contributing your family’s story. Bring a family object (nothing valuable, please) to photograph for the exhibit, and come ready to share a story!

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) will provide arts and crafts activities related to their Dragon Boat Festival.

Join us as we spruce up the park for the spring and summer seasons. We will be planting about two dozen new shrubs throughout the park so we can use a lot of extra hands and diggers. We will also be spreading some mulch and doing general clean-up/weeding. There will be something for all ages and skill levels to help with. All tools, gloves and supplies will be provided by the Parks Department. Water and light refreshments will be available.

This year, in addition to the Menorah that is placed in the park for the holiday season, we will also have a holiday tree. Please bring the kids and join us on December 10th as we gather to make decorations for the tree. We will provide all the craft materials needed. Due to the cold weather we will meet at the Vladeck Houses Tenants Association Community Room (328 Madison Street) to make the decorations indoors and then at the end of the event we will walk as a group together to the park to decorate the tree. If you are a crafts person and want to volunteer to lead the kids in making decorations please reach out to us.

All the leaves are brown and by this time of year are also on the ground. Join us and work off some of that large turkey meal at our annual post-Thanksgiving leaf raking event. Come help us clean the park by raking and bagging leaves that will then be sent to the Lower East Side Ecology Center for composting. We will supply all the tools, gloves and equipment. We just need your helping hands and smiling face for any amount of time that you can give

It's our Annual Fall It's My Park Day event!!

Come get your hands dirty by helping us plant daffodil bulbs throughout the park, rake up leaves, and do some general cleaning of the park. All are welcome. We will supply all the tools, gloves and equipment. We just need your helping hands and smiling face for any amount of time that you can give

Join Friends of Corlears Hook Park, NYC Parks and the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film!

Wednesday, June 22, 20168:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.On the Softball Field

Arrive by 8:00 p.m. to get your spot. Feel free to bring a blanket to sit on; there will be a limited supply of chairs available. Bottled water and food is OK, but no glass. Reservations are not taken; space is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Open to all!

Movie Synopsis: A starry-eyed, would-be star discovers just how far the notion that "there's no such thing as bad publicity" can go in this screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Chicago, originally directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse. In the mid-1920s, Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) is a small-time chorus dancer married to a well-meaning dunderhead named Amos (John C. Reilly). Roxie is having an affair on the side with Fred Casley (Dominic West), a smooth talker who insists he can make her a star. However, Fred strings Roxie along a bit too far for his own good, and when she realizes that his promises are empty, she becomes enraged and murders Fred in cold blood. Nightclub sensation Velma (Catherine Zeta-Jones) murders her philandering husband, and Chicago's slickest lawyer, Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), is set to defend her. But when Roxie also winds up in prison, Billy takes on her case as well -- turning her into a media circus of headlines. Neither woman will be outdone in their fight against each other and the public for fame and celebrity Chicago won six Academy Awards in 2003, including Best Picture.Rated PG-13